CFE Science

When water enters the cracks in a large rock

and freezes, the water expands. Over time,

water freezing and thawing –

• erodes the large rock through a river

• weathers the rock into sediments

• deposits lava in a new place

• changes the rock into a glacier

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Which pair of landforms are the result of the same agent of change?

• a canyon and a v shaped valley

• a u shaped valley and delta

• a sand dune and cave

• a delta and sand dune

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• a slow moving glacier

• a thunderstorm

• heavy winds

• moving water

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• tornadoes

• glacial movement

• flash flooding

• deposition by the wind

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Which of the following describes deposition due to water?

• A river breaks rock into small pieces.

• Strong waves crash against rock, breaking off

  sediments.

• Wind blew sand and deposited them in the

  formation of a sand dune.

• Water in a river slowed and dropped off

  sediments to form a delta.

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• flooding

• wind

• massive glaciers

• volcanic activity

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• flooding

• wind

• massive glaciers

• volcanic activity

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Which diagram best represents the process

of frost wedging?

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What is the jet stream?

• Precipitation in North Carolina

• Weather over a long period of time

• Strong winds above the Earth's surface

• Football flying over the Earth

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A narrow band of fast moving winds high in the atmosphere that move from west to east

• Jet Stream

• doldrums

• equator

• polar easterlies

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